Word: glorious
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...hints, this artist group was concerned with the romantic and mystical. The collection's seven paintings by Kandinsky show him unshackling color from objects as he invents abstract art. But before quite doing so, he painted Angel of the Last Judgment (1911), in which we can make out a glorious, multicolored archangel lifting the last trumpet. Kandinsky is perhaps suggesting the confusion, delight and anxiety we might feel on encountering such a being. Alexei von Jawlensky, another Blaue Reiter, wrote of the years 1905-06, "I understood how to translate nature into color according to the ardor of my soul...
Fortunately, one small device can give me the power of a genie, a demigod and a high school-aged James Bond—my television remote. This summer I have rediscovered cartoons on cable, and life has been as glorious as a never-ending Saturday morning...
...belated effort to raise Jiang's stature in the party pantheon is under way. "Glorious Jiang is the Core of Our Country's Future," intoned one recent newspaper editorial. Political acolytes are lobbying to enshrine Jiang's tepid ideology alongside Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory, the hallowed manifestos that form the foundation of correct political thought in China. Getting anyone but scholars to pay attention to Jiang's national mission statement is a challenge. Few outside intellectual circles can name even one of the "Three Represents," his awkward effort to integrate modern capitalism with communist principles...
...health clubs. China has fewer than 20 freestanding fitness centers catering to the middle class. "We were also very encouraged to see how many large Western companies had made entries in China," says Toback, "chief among them McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Pizza Hut." To get rich is glorious, but getting fat is just gross. Let one hundred blisters bloom...
...much has gone according to plan for the 20th hijacker over the past year. First, on September 11, Zacarias Moussaoui missed his flight into the glorious afterlife imagined by al-Qaeda's suicide terrorists. Now a U.S. judge won't even accept his guilty plea...